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  • So picture this: It's about five months ago, when the school year is ending.

  • I'm sitting at my lunch table with some friends,

  • and we're talking about some music were listening to.

  • Now, I'm over here with some Tame Impala a little bit of Grateful Dead..

  • Com Truise in there and, of course, There's a bit of a motley group at the table.

  • There's a few black people, a few white people,

  • Filipino-- it's a good mix.

  • But the black people at the table, see, they're calling me a

  • C o r n b a l l.. for the music that I'm listening to. And so I asked 'em,

  • "What do you listen to?" and the one guy says to me, "I'd be bumping a Lil Pump,

  • XXXTentacion, Ski Mask the Slump god..." "Wait, wait, who?" "Bro..

  • I knooooow you've heard Lil Pump before."

  • "no. i'm white" "You ain't heard of my dog XXXTentacion?" "no. i'm white"

  • "Nigga you a c o r n b a l l. Let me play somethin'"

  • "Man this sucks.." "No that shit dummy slaps."

  • But it didn't slap, or at least, it didn't slap yet. A month or so later,

  • I found my sister listening to the guy, and I gave his music another shot.

  • She'd been playing 'Jocelyn Flores'

  • And at first, I didn't even think this was the same rapper that had been played for me before.

  • The song had coherent lyrics with intention behind them and music theory behind the beat.

  • I read the lyrics of the song after I'd listened to it, and found out that it was practically a poem...

  • Dedicated to a girl that X knew who killed herself.

  • This wasn't rap as I knew it,

  • but I wanted more, and so I listened to the album that the song was on..

  • 'Seventeen' in just under an hour thereafter.

  • It was probably both the best and the worst

  • introduction to him that I could've had, because on one hand you had what he claimed to be his, "Most powerful"

  • intended set of songs to date..

  • But on the other hand, he had a set of songs that really didn't connect with the rest of his discography.

  • It was strange.

  • Hearing those lyrics and those songs created an image of him, to me, that I didn't find in any other rapper that I'd ever listened to.

  • Clicking from related video, to related video, even listening to such powerful lyrics such as, "

  • "

  • The image of X in my mind, despite the more ghetto sounding material that he produced, still remain distance from everyday rap.

  • To me, he wasn't identical to the contemporary rappers of the Miami music scene from which he gained his following.

  • like Lil Pump and Smokepurpp

  • All three of them do share stylistic tendencies unique to the Miami rap,

  • subculture. A lot of which, come from the earlier Raider Klan and their founder SpaceGhost Purpp,

  • One of the pioneers of distorted sound effects in rap.

  • You hear these most notably in his song 'Tha Black God', where a distorted bass

  • underscores his lyrics about coming to prominence in the rap game.

  • You hear the same in Lil Pump's 'Gucci Gang' and in Lil Purp's 'Audi' and of course, in XXXTentacion's

  • But then, when you listen to something like 'Young Bratz' the similarities really begin to fade away and X as an individual artist comes forward.

  • The first thing that really got to me, was his anger. Lyrics like, "

  • "

  • Don't speak to a simplistic man content with his life in the same way,

  • do, and the thing is there's a really good reason for that. X has lived an extremely difficult life..

  • Murders, and rapes, and suicides, have plagued him since he was a child.

  • It's no mistake, that, when he was younger

  • He broke a kid's mouth for making fun of his mom, and nearly strangled a homosexual to death for looking at him in the wrong

  • way when he was imprisoned.

  • "So I go into the corner,

  • and I started beating his face in.. like I..like I grab his face, and, like I put it on the corner type shit...and I

  • threw his head on the corner,

  • and I just started stomping and like, his jaw in type shit, and then as soon as I did that like... I remember like I

  • just put his head on the corner

  • and I started stomping on it..so I started stranglin', like, I'm strangling him, like, and he's like.. leaking leaking leaking type shit

  • I'm strangling him so he doesn't scream, so I'm strangling him...Yeah, like I..

  • smeared his blood on my face, on my hands.." X is a very angry person.

  • A very disjointed

  • person, and more than anything, the musicality of his rap reflects that.. because it's genuine to him.

  • "That's why sometimes the underground, like, rawness of the track" "--Makes the track genuine.

  • It's a personal thing, because my ears, like, my ears

  • I want it to fit my ears, because I know if it...bro if it sounds crazy to me

  • It's gonna sound crazy to everybody else, when it sounded crazy to us

  • I knew for a fact to other people that just hear it..

  • It would sound absolutely fucking insane.

  • And I was always, always right with that."

  • That distorted bass is a personal choice that reflects him, in the way

  • he wants the music to sound. Finding that out, really changed the way I understood his music.

  • That bass isn't just distorted for the sake of adhering to the style of his contemporaries,

  • but manifesting his own mind in the music that he's creating.

  • Even in his more vapid music, that anger that I saw

  • became, not one of a shallow aesthetic,

  • but of a clearly defined reflection of X's mind. And the thing is, he doesn't just leave his mind to the screaming.

  • His mind is the whole of his music.

  • That's probably why you get shit like.."

  • Because his mind isn't always the most put together, but at the same time you see currents of his life running throughout every song he's ever made.

  • In his horror music,

  • whether the lyrics are meaningful or not, it is in the screaming,

  • but not entirely,

  • Anyone can clearly tell that that screaming of the lyrics draws some inspiration from heavy metal or at least pop metal music which X has actually

  • mentioned as stylistically formative in the creation of his own genre.

  • But there's more metal to his music than many would think, he's actually no stranger to sampling from bands like

  • Slipknot, or excerpts from the works of Marilyn Manson.

  • But the actual music, not the rap over top that X has originally produced, also draws so much for metal that it's actually kind of

  • surprising. The most prevalent music device

  • he uses is what's called 'Chromaticism', which is the same thing you hear in that signature circus music. It's kind of eerie,

  • but, also kind of inviting. And X makes clear use of it in the song 'Gnarly Bastard'. That beginning ascent you hear kind of like

  • a winding sound, is a chromatic ascent starting on the F sharp until you finally get into the main riff, that's used throughout the song.

  • Lot of his basses also make use of this Chromaticism as well. The beat not staying on one particular note,

  • but rising and falling by one chromatic interval each time

  • it's hit. For reference, Metallica is just one of many metal bands that makes use of the chromatic scale.

  • Especially in their songs 'Master of Puppets' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'

  • What's more,

  • X also makes use of what's referred to as the 'harmonic minor scale' in a lot of his music, too. Giving it that,

  • dissonant, and eerie sound that 'Gnarly Bastard' and 'King of the Dead' are known for.

  • Again, you find the harmonic minor throughout the metal music because of the similar dark tone that metal tries to evoke.

  • Stylistic choices like these, pervade X's music. Even in those songs that aren't specifically

  • influenced by metal. The clearest example of this is his song, 'Slipknot' where a piano actually runs down the

  • entirety of the A flat harmonic minor scale.

  • The pervasive nature of the metal influence in X's music is also demonstrated in 'I Spoke to the Devil in Miami,

  • He Said Everything Would Be Fine' and actually in 'Look at Me'. Where, twice, he uses a riff

  • that's almost identical to that used in 'Last Resort' by Papa Roach.

  • You probably can't hear it exactly, so let me slow things down for you. Here's the riff from 'Last Resort'

  • Now here's the riff from 'Look at Me'

  • And here's the riff from 'I Spoke to the Devil in Miami'

  • The use of the F sharp, the G, the C, and the B in both riffs to evoke a dissonance throughout the song, and the fact that the order of the

  • notes is somewhat identical, speaks incredibly to X's deep appreciation for the artists

  • he listens to. The fact that he incorporates a similar riff into 'I Spoke to the Devil' may be misconstrued as lazy music writing,

  • but there's so much meaning behind it that it might actually make you rethink the way the song is organized.

  • What's created in this riff between the F sharp and the C is what's known as a

  • 'tritone', the most dissonant sound in western music often called the 'Devil in Music' because of such a

  • characterization. The way it dissonant-ly rings out against the main melody of the song,

  • reminds us of dissonance against the consonant harmony. Almost as if the devil himself is in the music..

  • It is the unstable nature of the tritone, that makes it so expressly dissonant.

  • And who is saying 'everything will be fine' in the song? Who is saying that X will have stability in his life?

  • But the king of instability himself, the Devil.

  • Little meetings like that, are why I've just come to

  • adore X as an artist. There's a power in what he writes and what he produces,

  • and he knows this. "What is real will prosper."

  • "Mm-hmm" "What you feel in the night, what you feel in the morning, what you feel midday..

  • That you don't think other people have the same thoughts --you feel alone in this thought,

  • but other people have this same thought, and it breeds..and when you, when you display this thought

  • It brings a certain amount of comfort

  • More than people, and people start to feel like 'alright this person understands me, this person is fucking cool'"

  • 'I Spoke to the Devil' is one of the best examples of X's meaning within the music

  • he writes, as it's completely filled with religious symbolism. The distinction between the wolf, the doer of evil, and the Shepherd, the doer of good,

  • alludes to Christ as the good Shepherd and Satan as the wolf. Satan ultimately more successful than Christ, at least according to X's perception,

  • references to both the apple of Genesis and the selling of X's soul to a

  • Baphomet, a legendary medieval demon. And the Latin phrase "Anima vestra" are all clear allusions to Roman Christianity and,

  • particularly, X's disenfranchisement with its inability to give him a sense of meaning and happiness.

  • Well, he's "Trapped in a changing maze/setting his soul ablaze couldn't control the pace/Where is this going?"

  • For many, this may seem like a one-off song full of emo-isms and esoteric references,

  • but religion for X is a motif that appears in a surprising amount of his songs.

  • He actually offers a rejoinder to his thoughts within the song

  • 'Valentine' when he speaks directly to the saint and asks him to make an intercession to God on his behalf.

  • Making reference to the popular 20th century prayer 'Now I Lay Me Down to sleep' in the process, and while X is unsure whether to

  • follow Satan or Christ, he remarks that he's "numb to the pain of life" another recurrent theme throughout his music

  • appearing in everything from 'Snow' to 'Everybody Dies in their Nightmares'.

  • You also see it used in 'Jocelyn Flores' and of course in the explanation track to the entire album that both songs are in.

  • As he says himself, "

  • Here is my pain and thoughts put into words

  • I put my all into this in the hopes that will help cure or at least numb your depression."

  • Numbness and the related

  • depression that exclaims to experience abound in 'Seventeen' as do a lot of references to the struggles and turmoils

  • he's incurred throughout his life, and as he says in that same explanation, is absolutely with purpose.

  • "Seventeen..

  • a collection of nightmares, thoughts, and real-life situations, I've lived

  • Listening to this album.. You are literally, and I cannot stress this enough, literally entering my mind

  • And if you are not willing to accept my emotion and hear my words fully,

  • do not listen."

  • Taken in conjunction with the theory and influence behind X's other music,

  • you absolutely get a clear sense that he means what he means in his music.

  • The writer Charles Haanel wrote over a hundred years ago, that there is a world within. A world of thought, and feeling, and power of..

  • light, and life, and beauty, and though invisible...

  • Its forces are mighty. And when you listen to X,

  • when you read his lyrics, and when you understand the way he has composed his songs, you enter into that world.

  • It's one of ongoing pain, of numbness, of

  • confusion, and of depression, it's one of an ongoing cultural synthesis between

  • African and Caucasian culture. Bringing hip-hop to metal to create an entirely new sound in the process. The problem that many have with X

  • is that the controversy that surrounds his life rife with crime allegations, murder attempts, and surprisingly odd

  • Instagram videos, seems to disavow the deeper meaning that you can find in him.

  • But all of this only further brings that internal world to us, and of course

  • while it's in a more raw and admittedly low-class manner.. it performs unto us, X's audience, the very same end that his music aims to..

  • To find X's mind, and to become one with his world. And in bringing that world to us, he's made that possible.

  • This is Mister Amazing. Thanks for watching.

  • a y

  • My boy worked hard on this video, and if you want to go compensate him for them

  • Then go throw him a buck or something on Patreon. He even remade X's handwriting, too

  • So if you want to use that joint as a font then go cut that too.

  • And if you want to go chop it up

  • Personally then go join us discord. It's been real. It's been fun, but I can't say it's been real fun

  • You

So picture this: It's about five months ago, when the school year is ending.

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XXXTENTACION:苦しめられた心 (XXXTENTACION: A Tormented Mind)

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